Adam Brown was Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1710 and until his death on 16 October 1711, but he did not have a knighthood.
[1] The Brown Baronetcy, of the City and Liberty of Westminster, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 11 March 1731 for Robert Brown,[2] an Irish merchant and Member of Parliament for Ilchester, with a special remainder to his two brothers.
[3] The Brown Baronetcy, of Richmond Hill in the County Palatine of Lancaster, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 24 January 1863 for the merchant and banker William Brown, of Astrop House, Kings Sutton, Northamptonshire.
He was the father of (1) Howard Clifton Brown, a Brigadier-General in the British Army and Member of Parliament for Newbury, and of (2) Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st Viscount Ruffside, Speaker of the House of Commons.
The heir apparent to the baronetcy is Sam George Richmond Brown (born 1979), eldest son of the 5th Baronet.